captuuring into premier via hdmi

[Chris Tompkins]

BMD has HDMI i/o cards:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklink/

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Richard Cardonna]

What the grassvalley hardware does is take the hdmi signal from the camera and changes it to firewire so you can input it to your nle via firewire. great for adobe onlocation also for dslr camaras.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Richard,

To be clear, the ADVC-HD50 is always converting to the “HDV” format, which is 25Mbps Long-GOP MPEG-2 at 1440×1080, with 4:2:0 color. Thus the quality of capture is limited to “HDV quality”. If your workflow dictates the need for Firewire capture and/or HDV formatted video, then it may be a viable solution for you.

Other capture devices such as BMD Intensity Pro or Matrox MXO2 Mini will capture HDMI (and analog) sources to more robust compressed formats, or even uncompressed, at full 1920×1080 HD with 4:2:2 color. Of course, they do not convert to Firewire and may require a PCI-e, Thunderbolt, ExpressCard, or USB 3.0 interface depending on model chosen.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Richard Cardonna]

Actually it does a little more

ADVC-HD50 – Real-Time HDMI to
FireWire (IEEE 1394) Conversion
Converts any uncompressed HDMI
source—for example from AVCHD
camcorders—to the HDV format for
easier editing (1280 x 720 to 1280 x
720 HDV and 1920 x 1080 to 1440 x
1080 HDV), also reducing the need for a
high-performance system or costly HDD
storage. Simple to operate—perfect for
laptops and desktops…

Of course not for evry job but for use with On Location and pulling video from cameras with hdmi its great

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Richard,

It sounds like you’ve already sold yourself on this so why ask for opinions? If you absolutely want to capture via Firewire and are happy with HDV compression, then go for it 😉

Jeff

[Richard Cardonna]

I am happy with 4k,raw but sometimes hdv is the way to go.

Thanks